Amin Saikal

Amin Saikal, is Emeritus Professor of Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies, and Founding Director of the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, at the Australian National University. He is also Adjunct Professor of Social Sciences at the University of Western Australia. Professor Saikal has specialised in the politics, history, political economy and international relations of the Middle East and Central Asia. He has been a visiting professor at Princeton University, Indiana University, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Zayed University, and visiting fellow at Cambridge University and the Institute of Development Studies, as well as a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow in International Relations (1983-1988). He is a member of many national and international academic organisations. ^{Amin Saikal, Afghan-Australian political scientist and academic}

2 December 1950

Born on the same birth date (2 December 1950): Benjamin Stora • John Wesley Ryles • Paul Watson

Born on the same birth day (2 December): Anna G. Jónasdóttir • Bill Erwin • Cahir Healy • Charles Edward Ringling • Jan Ullrich • Peter Harding (RAF officer, born 1933) • Ralph Beard • Rich Sutter • Robert Turbin • Yvonne Catterfeld

Born in the same month (December 1950): Billy Smith (ice hockey) • Bob Gilder • Claudia Cohen • December 24 • John Boozman • Jon Polito • Manny Trillo • Martti Vainio • Maurice Peoples • Max Maven • Pedro Ferriz de Con • Randy Castillo • Sarath Fonseka • Sylvester James Gates • Timothy Mo • Vicente del Bosque